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Exploring UFOs and Extraterrestrial LifeThu, 08 Feb 2018 05:38:54 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.3Minnesota witness alerted to UFO in building reflectionhttp://www.openminds.tv/minnesota-witness-alerted-ufo-building-reflection/31125
http://www.openminds.tv/minnesota-witness-alerted-ufo-building-reflection/31125#commentsMon, 24 Nov 2014 23:03:26 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=31125A Minnesota witness reported watching a bullet-shaped UFO hovering next to a Minneapolis building that quickly accelerated to the northeast after first seeing its reflection, according to testimony in Case 61617 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was a front seat passenger in a carpool on a clear and bright day on October 28, 2014, when the object was first noticed.

Panorama of the Minneapolis skyline. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

“I was looking out of the passenger window and idly ran my eyes up the side of a mirrored building approximately 15-degrees to the right of my central viewpoint,” the witness stated. “As I followed the building up, I noticed the reflection of the craft in the side of the building.”

The witness turned her attention away from the building and saw the actual craft.

“It was silver, shiny, and somewhat bullet/chevron-shaped with three lights in the rear of the craft – two red, one white. There were no visible windows. No other object was in the area – again, the sky was clear blue.”

Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)

The object then moved away quickly.

“The craft remained stationary for the time of about one minute, and then accelerated to the northeast, over downtown Minneapolis. There was no noise from the craft as well. I was quite stunned, then surprise as I realized I had just witnessed an unexplained object.”

The witness provided one illustration of what the object looked like. Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, population 400,070.

The witness first saw the object in a building’s reflection. Pictured: The white U.S. Bancorp towers are reflected in the Capella Tower. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Minnesota has a current UFO Alert Rating of 5 with a low number of recent reports nationally. Minnesota had 5 UFO reports that occurred during October 2014 – calculated at 0.93 sightings per million population.

The UFO Alert Rating System is based on five levels – 1 through 5 – where states with 4.01 or higher reports per million residents are rated an Alert 1; 3.01 – 4.0 reports are an Alert 2; 2.51 – 3.0 are an Alert 3; 2.01 – 2.5 are an Alert 4; and those states with 2.0 or lower are rated an Alert 5.

Please remember that most UFO sighting can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

Science teacher Allison Barta and her friend Neil Peterson were outside her home in Cass Lake, MN taking pictures of pelicans when they noticed a translucent, disc-shaped object in the sky. The Grand Forks Herald describes that the UFO “spanned the horizon in just a few seconds at an incredible speed.”

The photo Barta took shows the mysterious object and two pelicans in flight. Although the UFO resembles simple lens flare, she explains, “[I]t’s definitely not a lens flare, cause we saw it with the naked eye.” The pelicans appear more in focus than the disc-shaped object, suggesting the UFO was closer to the camera than the pelicans were. Barta recalls, “For the moment, we were pretty dumbfounded. The two of us are watching it zoom across the sky, and I’m trying to get another picture of it, but I couldn’t catch it.”

The witness is dumbfounded by what she observed. She explains, “It’s not an aircraft known to this planet. I don’t really know what it is.”

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/disc-shaped-ufo-photographed-in-minnesota-1141/23736/feed0UFO video shows two objects over Minneapolishttp://www.openminds.tv/ufo-video-shows-two-objects-over-basilica-of-saint-mary-in-minneapolis-1110/23315
http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-video-shows-two-objects-over-basilica-of-saint-mary-in-minneapolis-1110/23315#commentsWed, 14 Aug 2013 20:49:30 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=23315A witness recorded video of two objects in the sky above the Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the night of August 9.

According to the report he filed the next day with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the witness explains that he was walking in Loring Park on his way to downtown Minneapolis when he noticed the two UFOs hovering in the night sky. He explains, “At first I didn’t pay much attention to them as I thought it was just helicopters perhaps. But then, one looked like it was sort of checking out the Basilica. I’m not sure how far away they were, so it may have just been a quirk of viewpoint and unrelated to the Basilica.”

UFOs over Saint Mary’s Basilica in Minneapolis. (Credit: MUFON)

The witness took out his Galaxy Note 2 smartphone and recorded more than four minutes of video showing the UFOs over Minneapolis. He describes that the objects hovered back and forth, and each UFO appeared to have dual-colored lights. He doesn’t know what he saw, but in his report to MUFON, he states that he is “inclined to think that they were man-made.” He explains:

I think it was probably something of terrestrial origin and someone either testing out some kind of say . . . drone, or something, or putting on a show of some sort with RC craft. They kind of reminded me of those small automated drones from some of the universities you see videos of doing synchronized flying. That or perhaps small RC craft (but silent). At first I thought there might be some sort of propeller sound, but it was just downtown noise. As I made my way downtown no one else seemed to have noticed anything. (it was busy downtown)

KMSP Fox 9 looked into the sighting by contacting the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and the FAA. Neither had received any sighting reports, nor had local law enforcement agencies. But Fox 9 also spoke with a man who suggests remote-controlled quadcopters as a possible identification for the UFOs. Tanner Becken, who works at Hobby Warehouse, told Fox 9 that the store has sold forty quadcopters just in the past six months. The quadcopter Becken showed to Fox 9 featured two colors of LED lights, which matches the witness’s dual-colored description.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-video-shows-two-objects-over-basilica-of-saint-mary-in-minneapolis-1110/23315/feed1Video of fast-moving UFO in Minnesotahttp://www.openminds.tv/video-of-fast-moving-ufo-in-minnesota-742/11144
Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:00:11 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=11144A fast-moving UFO was captured on video in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 11th. The bright white object in the video appears to have an irregular shape, leading some to suggest that the object is nothing more than a plastic bag blowing in the wind. But according to the Epoch Times, “Slow motion footage reveals it to have a distinct form and the speed of movement is too fast and directed for it to be a bag blowing in the wind.”

Several smaller white objects also appear in the video that could be bugs or birds. But for now, all the flying objects in this video remain unidentified.